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...class there will be a biologist, a superintendent of public schools, a commission merchant, two draughtsmen, three writers and literary critics, an iron founder, a coffee cultivator, a musician, a geologist, an entomologist, a mining expert, a forester, a gas engineer, three military men, a dentist, a wholesale grocer, a dealer in live stock, an actor, an artist, and a missionary...
First came the Seniors, dressed in long red gowns with black Oxford caps. They had with them on a dray, a model of the Harvard statue, supported by burlesque personations of a butcher, a cooper, and a grocer, in allusion to the father and two step-fathers of John Harvard, who left their little fortunes to his mother, whence the property passed to him to endow finally the infant college. The group was labelled "Johnnie Harvard's Pas." The Seniors carried also a transparency worded as follows: "We are the oldest living graduates...
...then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre of the dray, was seated our statue on the Delta, clad in the exact ancient vestments; the chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed...
...during all this period of his college career where was Katharine, his mother! Upon the death of the butcher, from whom she received her portion, she married in due time a grocer, who, dying, left his property to swell the butcher's. She again married a cooper, and his moderate fortune was added to that of the butcher and the grocer, and so when Katharine, the much-husbanded, died, a year after her son took his master's degree, she had a considerable fortune to leave to her two sons, John and Thomas, and the latter son dying...
...Grocer...